Prof. Dr. Ulrich Schreiber (retired since March 2022)

Department of Geology at the Faculty of Biology

Website: https://www.ulrich-c-schreiber.de/

Main areas of research:

The origin of life in the Earth's continental crust

A collaboration with Prof. Dr. Christian Mayer, Physical Chemistry and Prof. Dr. Oliver J. Schmitz, Applied Analytical Chemistry at the University of DUE

GeoBioScience

• Hill-building wood ants as bioindicators for recent tectonics

Completed:

Underground pumped storage plants

• Re-use of former coal mines in the Ruhr area
• Installation of pumped storage plants in opencast lignite mines

Volcanology

• Petrology of volcanites
• Genesis of alkali volcanites
• Magma mixing Globuide diffusion

Geological maps of the Westerwald:

Sheet Westerburg, Sheet Selters, Sheet Montabaur, Sheet Meudt -

The results and maps of the geological mapping have been incorporated into the

Hydrogeological mapping of the Westerwald district, 1:50,000 (J. Gad, M. Weidenfeller (2015) Rhineland-Palatinate State Office for Geology and Mining)

Tectonics

• Tertiary tectonics in central Central Europe

GeoBioScience

• Anomalous behavior of wood ants (genus Formica) before earthquakes